From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 23 15:51:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29436 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from limbo.rtfm.net (nathan@rtfm.net [204.141.125.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29429 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nathan@limbo.rtfm.net) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by limbo.rtfm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05290; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:50:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19980123185031.45289@rtfm.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:50:31 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman To: Karl Pielorz Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRC - Anyone know anything about this? References: <34C91CE3.E6C088FE@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <34C91CE3.E6C088FE@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 10:42:43PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 10:42:43PM +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone either answer the questions below, or point me in the right > direction regards IRC? > > We're a small ISP in the UK - and recently all our customers have been > 'booted' off other UK ISP's IRC servers (notably Demon) - Not that were saying > this is _wrong_ or anything, as it's their IRC server, their bandwidth etc... > > My questions are: > > 1. Where can I get any documentation about setting up IRC on FreeBSD? - what > IRC servers are popular etc.? ircd is really "the" irc server. ircd+hybrid5 is what's currently being used on EFnet; other networks have their own modified daemons. The vanilla ircd (if you're going to base your own ircd on it) is in /usr/ports/net/irc. The EFnet hybrid5 daemon is in /usr/ports/net/ircd-hybrid-5. > 2. If I setup a local IRC server - this isn't going to suck all our bandwidth > is it? - Am I right in thinking it will only use as much bandwidth as the > clients it's supporting are using? (e.g. 4 clients in 5 channels means it will > only be receiving data sent to those 4 clients in 5 channels, and not _all_ > the other channels being sent? - kinda like an IRC proxy 'server' more than > anything else?) If you hook it up to a net it's going to suck bandwidth. EFnet takes up a T1 on a 'light' day I'm told, and a 10baseT or even DS3 connection is recommended. > I've played around with ircd, and got some 'interesting' results, which bare > no comparison to the config files I thought I'd been setting up - I thought > I'd better find out more info - before I go round causing 'trouble' ;-) > > Thanks for any help, > > Regards, > > Karl Pielorz -- ________________ _______________________________ / Nathan Dorfman V PGP: finger nathan@rtfm.net / / nathan@rtfm.net | http://www.rtfm.net /